Joe Hart has "no chance" of going out on loan in January even if he is still not re-established as Manchester City's No1, Manuel Pellegrini has stated, with the manager also refusing to say whether a good performance against Viktoria Plzen on Wednesday could force him back into the first team for Sunday's visit of Swansea City.

Pellegrini will select Hart for Wednesday evening's Champions League group match at the Etihad Stadium for the first time in a month, the goalkeeper's last appearance coming in the 2-1 defeat at Chelsea.

The 26-year-old is being recalled as the match is a dead rubber with regard to qualification. City's passage to the knockout phase is sealed, and there is only an outside chance of overhauling Bayern Munich, who lead by three points, to win the group.

As this is a season that ends with the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil the prospect of Hart not playing regular first team football would harm his chances of retaining first choice status with England. Roy Hodgson, England's manager, is keen that he should fight his way back into Pellegrini's plans.

Yet even if Hart nears the winter transfer window still out of favour and feels he needs a temporary move Pellegrini will not countenance this. "There is no chance for Joe Hart to go out from this squad in January," he said. "There is a lot of news about five, six, seven goalkeepers that we want to buy but it's not true. Of course he stays."

Hart has reportedly impressed Pellegrini in training during his time out, so a fine display against Plzen, whom City beat 3-1 in the away game and are bottom with no points, could force a recall for the Swansea game.

"That's a question for next Saturday [the day before the Swansea game]," said the manager. "On Wednesday he will start then the next game we'll talk about who will start playing. The important thing for Joe is he will play on Wednesday and we hope he will have a very good performance."

Samir Nasri has been among City's standout performers following last season's uneven form during which Pellegrini's predecessor, Roberto Mancini, became exasperated with him.

Nasri's issues included a clash with a French journalist following France being knocked out of Euro 2012. Nasri said to the reporter, "You are looking for shit, you are looking for trouble", when asked a question in a mixed zone, also adding "fuck you".

Nasri was troubled enough to refuse to speak about his problems to his parents and agent. But after a summer of soul searching the playmaker decided to turn his approach around.

"I wasn't feeling myself. It was a tough season," he said. "Personally after the Euro championships and the beef with the French journalists, for months I refused to speak to anybody and had a lot of bad press in France and I wasn't involved in the national team. It was a little difficult. In my head I wasn't the same. I didn't play well for City and lost my spot in the squad and at the end of the year, you look at your season and you realise I was not myself.

"I [now] talk to the people - keeping things to yourself is never good. So I talked to the people I love and I decided to smile and be happy and do what I do best. Playing football and that is it."

Asked precisely who he spoke to, Nasri said: "My parents, my agent, that is the people that matter. Even at the time, I refused to speak to them. I didn't want to talk or explain myself. I didn't want to talk about the situation because it was really difficult and it was inside me. So you spend all the time thinking. Sometimes when you do mistakes, you don't want to admit it. That was my biggest mistake.

"As a player, as a person, I grew up a lot. I am not looking for another incident like this to grow up again. But I know my mistakes now and I know what to do to make it right."

At one juncture Mancini stated he wanted to hit Nasri due to frustration with him. "It was just a word. Managers have different ways of working," he said. "Some like to say things in the press to make players react and some like to say things face to face with the player. Some players see things in the press, it touches their ego and they react. Last year, I just wasn't in a good place. Everything he was saying was difficult for me to accept. It wasn't his fault, it was just me because I wasn't in a good place."

Vincent Kompany, who trained with the squad for the first time since the thigh injury he suffered in early October playing against Everton, will not feature against Plzen.

"He started this week working with the whole squad. He is working with the physio. I think next week he will be fit to play. But not on Wednesday," said the manager, who is also without three other first-team squad members. "I think [Stevan] Jovetic, [David] Silva and [Jack] Rodwell need another week or 10 days more to be fit. They will not be involved on Wednesday or at the weekend," the manager added.